“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

When you are finished changing, you’re finished.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

All the darkness of the night is no match for a single candle that refuses to die out.

Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.

I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.